From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: SCSI Performance (Yet Again) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 11:39:27 GMT
In article <MUTS.93Aug23202814@compi.hobby.nl> muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
>>> On Sun, 22 Aug 1993 15:03:38 GMT, jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John
>>> Henders) said:
> JH> Again, on my ST, there was a program that bypassed the
> JH> filesystem completely to test raw disk i/o, and somehow they
>
>Should not be hard to write. Something like
>
> buf=malloc(16*1024*1024);
> fd=open("/dev/hda",O_RDWR);
/dev/hda is still buffered... Linux doesn't have raw disk devices. I haven't
yet figured out why there's so much resistance to adding them.
++Brandon
-- Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca